Indy (DayZ)

Alright, so I put in new thermal paste last night and so far no issues. Played for about an hour and a half last night after applying the new thermal paste and I didn't get a single BSOD. Not sure if it fully fixed my problem but if it doesn't I'll be sure to come back here.

Interesting. I noticed when I was going to reseat my RAM that my computer was pretty hot. I got this CPU fan in my computer right now a few months back and it came with thermal paste, so I may try that.

So I've been playing DayZ for the past two weeks and I'm really enjoying it so far. Although one issue I've came across recently is that I'm getting a blue screen of death now just minutes after logging and spawning in to a server. The BSOD becomes more persistent by the day now and it's really starting to get on my nerves. I've updated drivers, ran windows update and downloaded a bunch of stuff there, and I also reseated my RAM. I would do a system restore but I don't have a restore point saved before the problem started happening, and I REALLY do not want to do a clean reinstall of Windows 7. I also ran a program called BlueScreenView and the BSOD seems to be caused by the same .exe file (ntoskrnl.exe), just in different variations. The most recent minidump file seemed to be caused by ataport.SYS but previous ones have mainly been caused by ntoskrnl.exe. I'm also getting the same error on the BSOD every single time, noted as "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". Here is the information from my most recent minidump file. Dump File: 080412-38313-01.dmp Crash Time: 8/4/2012 5:36:24 PM Bug Check String: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Bug Check Code: 0x000000d1 Parameter 1: fffff800`014a3521 Parameter 2: 00000000`0000000d Parameter 3: 00000000`00000008 Parameter 4: fffff800`014a3521 Caused by Driver: ataport.SYS Caused by Address: ataport.SYS+3e32 Processor: x64 Crash Address: ntoskrnl.exe+7f1c0 Full Path: C:\Windows\Minidump\080412-38313-01.dmp Processors Count: 4 Major Version: 15 Minor Version: 7601 Dump File Size: 291,392 If there are any BSOD experts on this forum then some help to fix this would be nice. If it helps the only programs I have running when I play DayZ are TeamSpeak, Steam, and then the game itself obviously.